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The Perfect Lamb
No matter how many times I read this, I just cannot do it without getting chills all over me! I bet you didn’t know the following about the manger that Jesus was laid in. Of course mangers are animal feeding troughs but in ancient Israel they were made of stone – not what you would see in a modern-day nativity scene. Not comfortable, but great for protection. That’s why those who were experts in this matter, the priests, would put their newborn lambs in them for protection. But not just any lamb, the unblemished perfect lambs that were used in the sacrifice for sins. And Bethlehem, where Jesus was born was FAMOUS for their UNBLEMISHED LAMBS used for the sacrifice. These lambs had to be perfect so they would wrap them tightly in cloth and lie them in the manger to keep them safe. This is exactly why the only time mangers are mentioned in Jesus’ birth story it is being told to shepherds. In Luke 2 it says “This will be a sign for you, you will find a baby wrapped in [swaddling] clothes and lying in a manger.” The shepherds would have understood this powerful parallel! THEY KNEW what the cloth and the manger meant! This baby would be THE PERFECT LAMB OF GOD! The Messiah who would sacrifice His life for the sins of the whole world. He wasn’t just a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes lying in a manger, He was GOD: perfect, sinless and holy, humbling Himself to become the perfect sacrifice to reconcile us back to Himself!! THAT my friend, that Perfect Lamb, is WHY we celebrate Christmas!! ❤️ ✝️ (Posted by Pat Smith on Facebook)
Comment by Eathan Benns
The God-man, unblemished but in human form, — mortal, with feelings, emotion, pain and suffering. If a human was to endure what Christ endured, we wouldn’t have made it past the crowning of thorns far less the scourging! But God endured, for us dumb humans. If you have ever been amazed about the perseverance of war heroes such as Desmond Doss of Hacksaw Ridge or Louis Zamperini in Unbroken and multiply it indefinitely that equals a God’s suffering! If that doesn’t speak to you about the evils of this world nothing else will but His Mercy for us, His image and likeness, His Creation. All He asks is that we return to Him and be reunited and show forth a faint glimmer of His Son in our life’s work. The saints did so willingly in conditions much worse than the ones we’ve lived! We’ve no excuse
How many times have we deserved Hell and God has been merciful and spared us! because His mercy is everlasting! So this Christmas make a change in your life for Him. Offer yourself, your children by raising them right, or your wife, mother, father by showing your love from good works and sacrifice! What God gave us as the first gift of Christmas was more than mercy, more than redemption or salvation. He gave us an infant God that suffered from the moment of conception till His death on a Cross.
